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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
December 2006
Contents
* 1 New Sponsors
* 2 BSD Certification at LISA 06
* 3 Psychometrics Explained
* 4 Looking Ahead to 2007
* 5 Website Statistics
* 6 Mailing Lists
* 7 About this Newsletter
1 New Sponsors
We're pleased to announce two new sponsors:
iXsystems as a gold
sponsor and Systemics Poland as a bronze sponsor.
iXsystems offers high-performance computing clusters,
blade servers,
custom rackmount servers, and storage solutions
to a wide
cross-section of industries. Using only the highest quality
components
and manufacturing processes, iXsystems supplies
FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD and Linux rackmount servers to the global
marketplace at
competitive prices. iXsystems supports and maintains
the PC-BSD
project. iXsystems' support and development of PC-BSD
helps drive
adoption of the FreeBSD operating system by Windows and
Linux users
comfortable with a graphical user interface.
Systemics Poland Sp. z o.o. is a Polish service
company with the
highest Sun Microsystems accreditation in service and
education. Due
to its qualifications and skills, Systemics
specializes mainly in
midrange and HighEnd servers, storage solutions, and the
Solaris and
FreeBSD OSes.
If your company is interested in sponsorship, please use
the contact
form on the website to request details.
2 BSD Certification at LISA 06
Dan Langille and Dru Lavigne of the BSDCG manned a *BSD
booth in the
exhibition hall at this year's LISA in Washington D.C.
BSD is well
known in the Usenix sysadmin community and there was a
fair bit of
interest in BSD certification.
3 Psychometrics Explained
A new publication describing the importance of
psychometrics is
available for download from the website:
http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/psychometric
.pdf
The pdf is currently available in English; we'll announce
translations
as they become available in future newsletters.
This document focuses on the question creation phase of
psychometrics.
4 Looking Ahead to 2007
The BSDCG would like to thank everyone for their
assistance in 2006.
By subscribing to the mailing list, hanging out on
#bsdcert, posting
announcements to newssites, taking surveys,
downloading and
distributing publications, translating documents,
creating graphics,
or donating and seeking sponsorships, you've helped to
keep this a
community effort.
We look forward to 2007 and wish everyone a happy holiday
season with
family and friends.
5 Website Statistics
Online webstats are available at
http://webstat
s.bsdcertification.org/.
6 Mailing Lists
If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-anno
unce/. It is a
closed list for announcements from the BSD Certification
Group.
The general discussion list is at
ht
tp://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.
7 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every
month, near
the middle of the month.
Thank you to Dru Lavigne for contributing to this
newsletter. The
editor is Jeremy C. Reed.
If you have any news items related to the BSD
Certification, please
let us know by submitting via the contact form on the
website or by
sending an email to newsletter BSDCertificationGroup.org.
Or if you
would like to volunteer for the translation team please
send a note
with the subject ``translation'' on the website's contact
form.
Do you read this newsletter? Please let us know if you
read the PDF,
webpage, or emailed version. Any comments or advice? Is it
useful for
you?
If you are interested in contributing tutorials or
useful howto
articles for an upcoming newsletter, please email us.
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